#Plutocracy

Adrian Țofei 🎥

Socialism without UBI is nothing but job slavery. Millions of people are working like hell for their passions that don't pay & have to renounce & waste their lives on

Joy-Ann 😷Reid

Indiana congressman Trey Hollingsworth says letting more Americans die of coronavirus is the "lesser of two evils" compared to the GDP going down and the economy tanking. Hope his constituents

Amid all the strange, alarming and exciting things that have happened lately, the fact that real long-term (30-year) interest rates have fallen to zero has been largely overlooked. Yet this

B. Lehman 🇺🇸 Ω

There is not one #economics #professor in any #American university that would have given an A to a student who argued that #GDP could decline 51%, an #UnemploymentRate of 23%

homemadeguitars

I am going to tell you what I believe is happening, both with Fox and, to a lesser extent, with the rest of the money media. https://medium.com/@journalismprofs/open-letter-to-the-murdochs-9334e775a992 2. When I

THREAD. Great, question, @JoyAnnReid! I had the same question. And for an answer, I *highly* recommend "Let Them Eat Tweets," by @Jacob_S_Hacker and Paul Pierson, which gives a clear, if

We have renters who are now having a hard time and my brother and I decided to waive their rent for the next two months, even though it will cost

Author of "In Defense of Looting" says the idea that "the small business owner must be respected" and "is part of the community" is really "a right-wing myth" that has

Yesterday, @DavidHundeyin published a wonderful piece on @BusinessDayNg about #Africa's resource nationalism - https://bit.ly/3g9M7uN There's a lot of talk about #Nigeria's current leadership and how it is "socialist&q

What is Trump?He’s the culmination of decades of oligarchic power.Decades in which billionaires became the motive force of politics.Dethroning Trump in November is crucial. But the bigger task is dethroning

I would say that the difference between me and virtually every other relatively successful journalist or publisher is that I don't regard other journalists or VIPs as any more important

1. The "nothing matters" response to scandals is particularly shortsighted because politics is a war of attrition carried on multiple fronts. The tax thing alone is not enough to sink

Thread on the conservative non-response to this week's police tactics: Where is the hard right in all this police over-reaction in the last week? These guys have told us for

Yeah but you know what?... Way too tepid & decades too late. This family has made billions for each of them on vomitous bile, slander, lies, hate-stoking, racist, misogynistic &

I’m starting to think the idea that Trump captured the Republican Party has it exactly backward. It’s the party that’s captured Trump, making him pursue all its favorite policies (taxes,

Our societal narratives are invisible by dint of their ubiquity, but they are far more important in stabilizing the status quo that all the cops and jails and domestic surveillance